Submissions: 2013 March

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Re: Submissions: 2013 March

Post by nezve » Thu Mar 14, 2013 7:31 pm

CED51, B30-32, B225 in Orion const.
Copyright: Evzen Brunner Higher res.: http://s6.postimage.org/7xlfebpld/CED51_1400px.jpg

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Re: Submissions: 2013 March

Post by Astromontufar » Sat Mar 16, 2013 7:18 am

Crescent Moon with Latitude changes
Explination: From Central America to South America, how the moon turns from a horizontal position to a vertical position.

Credit: Sergio Montúfar
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Re: Submissions: 2013 March

Post by cyandro » Sat Mar 16, 2013 12:42 pm

Comet PANSTARRS in the sky over Brittany, France.
Quit difficult to see with the naked eyes, but really nice with the live view of my canon 6D.

Canon 6D, 70 200 f3.2, 1.6s, 3200 iso
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Re: Submissions: 2013 March

Post by Chepar » Sat Mar 16, 2013 1:03 pm

Hi! this moon is taken with my son's little achromatic refractor Astromaster90 (and my dmk21au618, of course)

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http://www.astrobin.com/full/33908/B/?real=&mod=

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Submissions: 2013 March

Post by broca » Sat Mar 16, 2013 2:52 pm

M106 Spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici
http://coatesastrophotography.com/p7241 ... #h58567864
http://coatesastrophotography.blogspot.com/
Copyright: Coates Astrophotography
M106 with accompanying galaxies NGC 4217, NGC 4248, NGC 4232, NGC 4231, NGC 4220 and NGC 4346
Spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici
~23.7 million light years distant
March 14 and 15, 2013
Ocala, FL
Combination of 6 min and 10 min exposures stacked in DSS for a total of 6 hours 40 min
1 hours each RGB
3 hours and 40 min Luminance
PS CS5
Orion 80mm EON
Orion 50mm guidescope with SSAG
QSI 683 ws
Losmandy G-11 with Gemini II
Hutech IDAS Light Pollution Suppression (LPS) Filter

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Re: Submissions: 2013 March

Post by Astromontufar » Sat Mar 16, 2013 5:07 pm

The delicate moon´s reflection
Copyright: Sergio Montúfar
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Post by markh@tds.net » Sun Mar 17, 2013 3:16 am

LDN 1622 Dark Nebula in Orion
Copyright Mark Hanson
LDN1622apodjpg.jpg
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Winter Sky

Post by Maria Rosa Vila » Sun Mar 17, 2013 7:19 am

Winter Sky

Orion and Jupiter over the Montsec, the new Starlight place in Catalonia
Copyright: Maria Rosa Vila

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Re: Submissions: 2013 March

Post by photonjunkie » Sun Mar 17, 2013 10:56 am

The Great Carina Nebula

Taken from Siding Spring Observatory, Australia.

Copyright Euan Murray http://photonjunkie.com
Bigger version here: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8378/8563 ... d758_k.jpg

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Re: Submissions: 2013 March

Post by AstroPaolo » Sun Mar 17, 2013 3:54 pm

ISS transit in h-alpha
My first capture of the iss over the Sun.
I started to capture 1 minutes before the time and when I was thinking to have lost it, here it come, in a blink of eye.
Exposure time of 0.624ms.

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Re: Submissions: 2013 March

Post by antaresv » Sun Mar 17, 2013 5:08 pm

Saturn
Saturn, imaged from Malaysia
Copyright: Kuen Cheng High School Astronomy Club

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Re: Submissions: 2013 March

Post by wilsondm » Sun Mar 17, 2013 6:24 pm

M51
Copyright: Morten la Cour and Jesper Sørensen
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Green flash from the top of Paris
http://ptrenard.skyrock.com/
Copyright: Bertrand Kulik
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Orion and Galena Fire in Colorado
Copyright: Travis Swan
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M106
Copyright: Frederic Segato
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Aurora
http://www.tracknature.com
Copyright: Jim Halfpenny
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Re: Submissions: 2013 March

Post by Florian Kainz » Sun Mar 17, 2013 8:18 pm

No luck observing the comet tonight. The sky was cloudy around sunset, but it cleared up later in the night, just in time to watch an orange crescent Moon set behind the Point Bonita lighthouse. (The photo was shot in the Presidio of San Francisco. The lighthouse is on the other side of the Golden Gate, about three miles away, and about two and a half miles west of the famous bridge.)

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The Crescent Moon sets behind the Point Bonita Lighthouse by fksr, on Flickr

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Re: Submissions: 2013 March

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Post by dmammana » Mon Mar 18, 2013 4:43 pm

What a great (and green) way to begin St. Patrick's Day! The CME hit us in Fairbanks, Alaska right as predicted late on the evening of March 16 and, with few exceptions, kept us aurora photographers hopping all night long. The only reason I gave up around 2 a.m. is that I ran out of memory cards for my digital camera! One of the most lovely auroral shapes--the corona--occurred one after the other after the other and was one of the prettiest displays I've seen in many years.
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Re: Submissions: 2013 March

Post by topl » Mon Mar 18, 2013 5:19 pm

Auroras
Copyright: Thomas Kast
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On March 18th 2013, I was in a forest near Kiiminki, Finland, waiting for Northern lights. Three days earlier a coronal mass ejection from the sun made its way towards Earth. Once the sky was dark enough amazing auroras appeared. Arcs, needles, curtains, coronas, red, green, purple, you name it! It was as if Lady Aurora opened a restaurant with an all-you-can eat buffet and she made sure no-one stayed hungry.

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Re: Submissions: 2013 March

Post by stefanopalmieri » Mon Mar 18, 2013 6:58 pm

The hunter on the Italian Alps

Nikon D700 and Samyang 14mm f2,8 @f2,8 - 25 sec. at 1600 iso:

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Il Cacciatore delle Alpi Retiche di stefano_palmieri, su Flickr


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NGC 3532 and 2516 from southern skies.

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Post by Ayiomamitis » Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:39 pm

Analemma on the southern meridian
http://www.perseus.gr
Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis Further details at http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Solar-Analemma-102816.htm .

Happy Vernal Equinox!

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Re: Submissions: 2013 March

Post by Leonardo » Mon Mar 18, 2013 8:31 pm

Markarian's Chain of Galaxies
http://www.starkeeper.it/Markarian.htm
Copyright: Leonardo Orazi

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Re: Submissions: 2013 March

Post by cyandro » Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:03 pm

No PANSTARRS comet today, but horses...

Horses under stars!
It is a picture that I couldn't miss... Nice sky show and horses standing without moving during 20s.

Canon 6D, samyang 14 mm f5.6 20s 3200 iso, at "Pointe Saint Mathieu", Brittany, France
Alexandre Croisier

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Re: Submissions: 2013 March

Post by WingnutR32 » Tue Mar 19, 2013 1:46 am

NGC4755 - Jewel Box Cluster
Copyright: Sam Frizza

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Re: Submissions: 2013 March

Post by mftoet » Tue Mar 19, 2013 10:20 am

NGC 4747, NGC 4725 & NGC 4712
www.dutchdeepsky.com
Copyright: Maurice Toet

A nice pair of interacting galaxies!
Exposure time: 255:90:80:80 min. (L:R:G:B, 15 min. L and 10 min. RGB subs)
Lens/telescope: 250 mm Astrosib Ritchey-Chrétien at f/5.7
Image scale: 0.78 arcsec/pixel, FOV 43.6′ x 32.7′ (F = 1420 mm at 5.4 µm pixels)
Camera: SBIG ST-8300M (T: -25 °C) with Baader LRGB filters
Mount: Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO
Guiding: TS OAG + SX Lodestar + PHD
SQM: 21.5 magnitude/arcsec²
Location: Etoile St. Cyrice, Hautes-Alpes, France
Date: March 9 – 10 and 11 – 12, 2013

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